The trend of the investment predators on Wall Street has always been concerned by the market, and the change in the position of the investment predators may become a new weather vane for the market. Recently, the positions of these investment giants in the second quarter were announced.

Soros fund continues to bet on technology stocks

After reversing the market in the first quarter, Soros's family office continued to bet on technology stocks in the second quarter. According to overseas media reports, according to the 13F report submitted to the regulator by Soros Fund Management, Soros's family office, Soros Fund Management did more than 24 stocks in the second quarter, including Amazon.Com Inc and other three leading technology stocks; a total of 14 stocks were cleared, reducing their holdings in 14 stocks led by chip stock Micron Technology Inc or ETF. In addition, Soros fund management disclosed that the market value of its positions surged 94 per cent in the second quarter to $778.9 million.

It is reported that among the 24 stocks newly entered by the Soros Fund, the top five positions in the market capitalization include three of the five major technology stocks of FAAMG: Amazon.Com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc-CL C parent company Alphabet Class A shares. Moreover, the newcomer Amazon.Com Inc has become one of the top five heavy stocks in Soros Fund. In addition, the Soros Fund bought 292200 Twitter shares.

Among the stocks cleared by Soros Fund in the second quarter, Tencent Music attracted particular attention. Tencent Music was the second stock in which the Soros Fund increased its holdings in the first quarter of this year, when Tencent Music's market value increased by nearly US $34 million. In the US stock market, Tencent Music's share price reached $32 in March this year and has fallen to $9.80 as of Aug. 13.

Soros, after all, is famous for macro trading, and it is obvious that such a fast-forward and fast-exit style is very different. But it may have nothing to do with Soros himself. In March, Dawn Fitzpatrick, chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management, said in an interview with the media that he was willing to enter the market to "sweep" when the market is out of position.

In addition, the Soros Fund also liquidated Warner Music, DoorDash, the largest takeout in the United States, Carvana, an online retail platform for used cars, MP Materials, a rare metals company, and Controladora Vuela Compa cheap a de Aviaci ó n, a Mexican low-cost airline. However, among the stocks increased by Soros Fund in the second quarter, Southeast Asian ecommerce Sea, in which Tencent is the largest shareholder, increased its stake by 88104 shares. In the second quarter, Soros Fund reduced its holdings of individual stocks, including Micron Technology Inc, T-Mobile and so on.

Bridge water heavy warehouse must consume and chip stock

Slightly different from Soros's style, Bridge Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, reduced its holdings in financial, communications, discretionary consumer goods and materials stocks in the second quarter, increasing its holdings in consumer necessities, healthcare, industry and information technology. Among them, Qiaoshui accounts for less than 24% of the capital allocation to financial stocks, down sharply from the average size of about 80% since 2012.

Among the stocks in the new warehouse, the top three stocks held by Qiaoshui are Linde Group, the world's largest industrial gas company, Weirui, a leader in virtual machine software, and Deere, the world's largest agricultural equipment company. the fund also re-bought chip stocks such as Micron Technology Inc, Applied Materials Inc, NVIDIA Corp and Intel Corp. Coca-Cola Company, iShares Mingsheng emerging Markets Index Fund, Walmart Inc, Procter & Gamble Co and Johnson & Johnson increased their holdings by nearly 2.57 million shares, more than 1.76 million shares, more than 1.63 million shares, more than 1.53 million shares and more than 1.11 million shares respectively compared with the first quarter of this year. Qiaoshui also increased its holdings in consumer giants such as Costco, Target and McDonald's Corp.

The larger stocks that Qiaoshui reduced its holdings in the second quarter included a variety of gold ETF, including a reduction of more than 6 per cent on SPDR gold ETF and 4 per cent on iShares gold trust. In terms of US-listed stocks, for large positions of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Pinduoduo, JD.com Inc, KE Holdings Inc. and other stocks, Qiaoshui as a whole did not carry out much operation, including New Oriental Education & Technology Group and good future position reduction of less than 1%. In addition, Qiaoshui also slightly reduced its holdings of Tesla, Inc. shares. In the first quarter of this year, Qiaoshui just built 37060 shares of Tesla, Inc..

The market value of Blackrock's position rose for six consecutive quarters and sold sharply against Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

In the second quarter, the market value of Blackrock's position reached US $3.59 trillion, compared with US $3.4 trillion in the previous quarter, up 5% from the previous quarter, and has increased its holdings for the sixth consecutive quarter. From the perspective of the position industry, Blackrock prefers information technology, finance and health care, accounting for 22.6%, 16.32% and 12.84%, respectively.

As of the second quarter, Blackrock's top five positions were Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Amazon.Com Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc-CL A, with a market capitalization of US $140.89 billion, US $136.984 billion, US $94.769 billion, US $54.043 billion and US $49.432 billion respectively, but all of them reduced their holdings slightly.

It is worth noting that in the second quarter, Blackrock sold Alibaba Group Holding Ltd sharply, reducing his holdings by 74.02 million shares, a reduction of 88.28%, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's share of his position decreased from 0.56% to 0.06%. However, for Pinduoduo, who is also a Chinese ecommerce, Blackrock's stake increased by 9.23%, and the market value of his stake increased slightly from $2.37 billion to $2.46 billion.

Goldman Sachs Group bought Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on a large scale in the second quarter.

Contrary to Blackrock's operation, Goldman Sachs Group bought a lot of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd in the second quarter.

According to Goldman Sachs Group's position report for the second quarter ending June 30, 2021, the total market value of Goldman Sachs Group's position reached $446.39 billion in the second quarter, compared with $396.454 billion in the previous quarter, an increase of 12.6 per cent from the previous quarter.

In the second quarter's position portfolio, Goldman Sachs Group added 836 shares and increased his holdings by 2591 shares. At the same time, 2356 shares were reduced and 706 stocks were cleared.

Among them, Goldman Sachs Group bought 5.87 million shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd in the second quarter, making Alibaba Group Holding Ltd its fifth largest position. in addition, technology stocks such as Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Tesla, Inc. also greatly increased their holdings. As of the second quarter, Goldman Sachs Group's top five positions were S & P 500ETF, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, an Shuo Russell 2000 ETF and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

In terms of reduction, Goldman Sachs Group significantly reduced his holdings of ETF such as SPDR S & P 500ETF and Nasdaq 100ETF, as well as financial stocks such as Visa Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co, while some technology stocks such as Amazon.Com Inc and Alphabet Inc-CL C were also reduced to varying degrees.